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It is lastly taking place — Megan Thee Stallion’s sophomore album is nearly right here! On Aug. 9, the Texas rapper dropped a trailer for her new album, titled “Traumazine.” “It took lots of self reflecting to get to the purpose in my life the place I’m proper now . . .” Megan wrote on Instagram. “I ain’t saying I lastly figured all the pieces out or that I am lastly at peace, bc I am not . . . buttt im excited for the hotties to get a greater understanding of what is taking place in my head.”
Two days later, the Grammy-winning rapper introduced the album’s tracklist — which incorporates options from Future, Jhené Aiko, Fortunate Daye, Latto, Rico Nasty, Pooh Shiesty, Key Glock, and Dua Lipa — in addition to its launch date, Aug. 12. “LETS JUST GO !!! #TRAUMAZINE OUT FRIDAY,” she tweeted. In one other tweet, Megan wrote: “From my cowl artwork, items of my monitor checklist and me even listening to part of a track I have never dropped but leaking (and we ALL know who the one ppl who had entry to all these PRIVATE hyperlinks are..) I’d as properly . . . lol.”
Megan’s shock announcement comes after she tweeted about having points along with her label, 1501 Licensed Leisure. “Y’all know I all the time have issues with dropping my music beneath this label, all these video games and having to go to court docket simply to place out my artwork has been so aggravating,” she wrote in an Aug. 10 tweet. “Thanks hotties for rocking with me via the bullsh*t WE ALMOST OUT 👏🏾 LETS STAY FOCUSED AND RUN THIS LAST ONE UP.”
Megan beforehand introduced that her second studio album was on the way in which in an Apple Music 1 interview on Oct. 28, 2021. The following day, the rapper launched “One thing For Thee Hotties: From Thee Archives,” a particular reward to her followers to carry them over till her follow-up to 2020’s “Good Information” arrived. “I have been sitting on these songs, so now I am like, ‘OK, the hotties deserve this. They need to have it,'” Megan mentioned of her venture. “And y’all ought to be ready for subsequent 12 months.”
Through the interview, the rapper additionally mentioned the pressures of holding her viewers’s consideration on social media in between tasks and evaluating herself to different artists. “I acquired to dam out all the pieces else, and I simply wish to rap. Typically it will get arduous, although, since you take a look at social media and you are like, ‘OK, this have to be what’s scorching,'” Megan mentioned. “I really feel like lots of artists, we take a look at different artists and be like, ‘Oh my gosh, this needs to be like this as a result of they the sh*t so I acquired to be that b*tch, too.’ However I am like, ‘Nah, it is not me.'”
Watch the trailer for Megan’s “Traumazine” album forward earlier than it drops this Friday.
Extra reporting by Njera Perkins.
